c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young." — Suzanne Fields
"I can live without money, but I cannot live without love." — Judy Garland
"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention." — John Hawley
"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty." — Sallust
"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die." — Lenny Bruce
"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself." — Blaine Lee
"On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon." — Clive Anderson
"Well, success does not mean doing well." — Shirley MacLaine
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty." — John Ruskin
"Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done." — George Bernard Shaw
"I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters." — Sophie Thompson
"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it." — Spike Lee
"My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do." — Mitt Romney
"For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes." — Chris Evans
"I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force." — John Cleese
"I think love and beauty are what life is all about." — John Derek
"Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it." — Natalie Imbruglia
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper." — Robert Wyatt
"As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way." — Jurgen Klinsmann
"My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine." — Flip Wilson
"I touch the future. I teach." — Christa McAuliffe
"Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market." — Vince Cable
"Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity." — Edwin Louis Cole
"Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women." — Michelle Bachelet
"Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person." — Walter Kaufmann
"I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there." — Jose Andres Puerta
"Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell." — Cass Canfield
"Every great film should seem new every time you see it." — Roger Ebert
"With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy." — Tom Udall
"Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there." — Will Smith
"Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself." — John Sununu
"I'll back up anything my dad says." — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
"Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance." — George Bernard Shaw
"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history." — Bertrand Russell
"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong." — Stockwell Day
"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson
"Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works." — Lea Michele
"So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that." — Pat Boone
"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." — David Brainerd
"It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there." — John Hughes
"I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play." — Eddie Van Halen
"If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world." — Gabrielle Union
"I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem." — Lukas Haas
"Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways." — Jesse James Garrett
"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society." — Thomas Jefferson
"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition." — Alvin Toffler
"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse." — Oliver Goldsmith
"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity." — Remy de Gourmont
"The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper." — Alfred Molina
"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion." — Ruth St. Denis
"Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?" — Anna Quindlen
"When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12." — Jordin Sparks
"To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order." — Joe Gold
"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself." — Henry David Thoreau
"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself." — Henry David Thoreau
"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed." — Nelson Mandela
"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time." — Denis Waitley
"Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons." — Frank Carlucci
"When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills." — Daniel Goleman
"Hope will never be silent." — Harvey Milk
"I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings." — Margaret Mead
"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success." — Robert Orben
"Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age." — Victor Hugo
"But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that." — Gerry Adams
"People with no humor, they're outta my life." — Patti LaBelle
"It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness." — Robert Plant
"Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful." — Christopher Meloni
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." — Robert E. Howard
"I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs." — Frank Langella
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding." — Gian Carlo Menotti
"I'd like to look like Madonna when I'm her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I've always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I'm always aware if I'm getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum." — Ellie Goulding
"But, you know, they don't enjoy the dinner hour together. It's just not as much of a ritual at night and it's interesting. I think the ritual is taking place perhaps more in the morning." — Katie Couric
"My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day." — Martha Beck
"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me." — Matthew Modine
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." — Evan Esar
"I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs." — Freddie Mercury
"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable." — Deepak Chopra
"People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are." — Mindy Kaling
"Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them." — Jerome Bruner
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." — B. C. Forbes
"I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it." — Todd Barry
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him." — Jim Elliot
"Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met." — David Cameron
"I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it." — Oscar Hammerstein II
"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it." — Margaret Fuller
"I used to travel in tennis shoes I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco." — Amy Irving
"Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven." — Lao Tzu
"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction." — Jack Vance
"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic." — Steve Jobs
"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life." — Moses
"I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up." — Nigel Farage
"The earth is rocky and full of roots it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil." — Anne Lamott
"Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive." — F. H. Bradley
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." — Ronald Reagan
"With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes." — Marlon Brando
"I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures." — Jane Smiley
"People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next." — Chuck Norris
"The fear of death comes from limited awareness." — Deepak Chopra
"The value of a good education has never left me." — Michelle Pfeiffer
"Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm." — Louis Farrakhan
"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." — Robertson Davies
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." — Thomas Paine
"I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either." — Ricky Schroder
"The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored." — Scott Caan
"When you get pure joy out of 'being' rather than 'doing' or 'seeing,' that's when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things." — Brendan Fehr
"Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father." — Josephus Daniels
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw
"To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood." — Natan Sharansky
"I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run." — David Rudisha
"I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else." — Charles Kennedy
"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days." — Gerhard Schroder
"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount." — Lara St. John
"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace." — Linda McCartney
"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected." — Louise Brown
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." — Malcolm X
"There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world." — J. William Fulbright
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence." — Jane Austen
"Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." — Amelia Earhart
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." — Norman Schwarzkopf
"My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free." — Cat Cora
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles." — Stephen Covey
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward." — Johann Georg Hamann
"Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere." — Henry Thomas
"Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make." — Mitch Daniels
"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me." — Thomas Merton
"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land." — William Graham Sumner
"Where there is love there is life." — Mahatma Gandhi
"Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide." — Naveen Jain
"It's fun to go to the movies and be scared." — Selma Blair
"The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected." — Gerrit Smith
"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives." — William Cobbett
"There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing." — Ziggy Marley
"There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat." — Jerry Nachman
"But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat." — David Millar
"You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs." — Mitt Romney
"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds." — Zig Ziglar
"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." — Ian Botham
"The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education." — Lucy Powell
"Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future." — Mitt Romney
"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck." — Chinua Achebe
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." — John F. Kennedy
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God." — Christopher Hitchens
"I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool." — Nathan Fillion
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided." — Edmund Barton
"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence." — Bernadette Devlin
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince." — Plato
"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind." — Michael Pollan
"Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose." — Aung San Suu Kyi
"I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today." — Richard Trumka
"There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold." — Matt Damon
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move." — Satchel Paige
"I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately." — Paul Feig
"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive." — Joan Rivers
"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself." — Bruce Greenwood
"Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God." — Sai Baba
"Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius." — Elon Musk
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace." — May Sarton
"And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all." — Michael Haneke
"I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him." — Jane Fonda
"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night." — Steve Martin
"The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies." — James Dyson
"I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package." — Chaske Spencer
"Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are." — William Barclay
"The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back." — Timbaland
"Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God." — Smokey Robinson
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything." — Katharine Hepburn
"If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger." — Emilio Estevez
"I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us." — Kinky Friedman
"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse." — Walt Disney
"I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have." — Michael Haneke
"The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many." — David Wilkerson
"Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me." — Levon Helm
"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life." — George Arliss
"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning." — Huey Newton
"What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing." — Ernest Gaines
"China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward." — Dalai Lama
"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher." — Pauline Kael
"Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done." — Charles Wesley
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time." — Robert Browning
"The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media." — Tony Campolo
"It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area." — Nicki Minaj
"I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism." — Herbert Read
"Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway." — Dan Stevens
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her." — Arthur C. Clarke
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic." — Stephen Lewis
"I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home." — Ruby Wax
"Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul." — Andre Maurois
"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it." — Edmond de Goncourt
"A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen." — Masaharu Morimoto
"People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs." — Salman Khan
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all this, too, shall pass." — Ann Landers
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important." — Franklin P. Adams
"The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so." — Harriet Martineau
"The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease." — James D. Watson
"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless." — Paul Harris
"In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it." — Fergie
"I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views." — Chris Evans
"Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying." — Martin Luther
"I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was." — Bryan Adams
"I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest." — Daniel Radcliffe
"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health." — Henry David Thoreau
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." — Walter Benjamin
"I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs." — Jim Clyburn
"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands." — Rosa Luxemburg
"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire." — William Congreve
"I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell." — Leona Lewis
"Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language." — Eric Allin Cornell
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." — John Muir
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war." — Toni Morrison
"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." — Napoleon Hill
"Freedom is from within." — Frank Lloyd Wright
"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." — Linus Pauling
"It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both." — Guy de Maupassant
"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion." — Muhammad Iqbal
"Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning." — Amy Grant
"I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt." — Kirsten Dunst
"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." — William Gibson
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." — J. Paul Getty
"My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential." — Scott McCloud
"Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live." — Kathy Ireland
"The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care." — George J. Mitchell
"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways." — Dennis Miller
"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent." — Samuel Lover
"When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking." — Elayne Boosler
"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith." — Ronald Reagan
"We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them." — Johannes Stark
"When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap." — Patrick Rothfuss
"I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other." — David Selby
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows." — Erma Bombeck
"Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live." — Henry Van Dyke
"A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world." — Maurice Chevalier
"Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry." — Bill Owens
"It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that." — George Michael
"It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly." — John George Nicolay
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." — Ingrid Bergman
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact." — William Shakespeare
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves." — John Charles Polanyi
"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence." — Wynton Marsalis
"I always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin!" — Idina Menzel
"It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is." — Christy Turlington
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death." — Thomas Carlyle
"When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover." — Bruno Tonioli
"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good." — Mariska Hargitay
"When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance." — Jerry Saltz
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green." — Francis Bacon
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." — Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa." — Paul Robeson
"Land really is the best art." — Andy Warhol
"I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age." — Mario Andretti
"It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?" — Jean Claude Van Damme
"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves." — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive." — Conrad Black
"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it." — Isaac Mizrahi
"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." — William Shakespeare
"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness." — Bryant H. McGill
"Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment." — Philip K. Dick
"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back." — Erica Jong
"There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s." — Tori Amos
"I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman." — Elizabeth I
"I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me." — Roy Rogers
"But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." — Albert Pike
"I put on lip balm first thing in the morning and always use it before I swipe on my red lipstick." — Heather Morris
"A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience." — Curt Siodmak
"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to." — Ron Livingston
"We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds." — Paul Ryan
"I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle." — Guy Clark
"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom." — Olof Palme
"If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me." — Bill Parcells
"City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure." — L. Neil Smith
"Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it." — Georges Duhamel
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art." — Frank Lloyd Wright
"Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time." — Dave Winfield
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company." — George Washington
"There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage." — Phil McGraw
"Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind." — Langston Hughes
"If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?" — Mary Wollstonecraft
"The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain." — Arthur Scargill
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally." — Stephen Gardiner
"I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it." — Lisa Marie Presley
"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life." — Tony Robbins
"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that." — Solomon Ortiz
"Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour." — Gary Oldman
"Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind." — Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes." — Gwen Stefani
"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful." — Joyce Maynard
"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created." — Peter Shaffer
"In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected." — Clare Boothe Luce
"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are." — Taylor Swift
"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time." — Hermann Hesse
"Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone." — William J. Clinton
"What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?" — Marilyn Monroe
"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid." — P. J. O'Rourke